Dew on the Grass

Radislav Lapushin

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 32
• Dew on the Grass: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov is the first comprehensive and systematic study to focus on the poetic dimensions of Anton C... Lees meer

The Dialogic Sign

David K Danow

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 2
• Employing an innovative series of related analytic models, The Dialogic Sign treats the four major novels ( Crime and Punishement, The Idiot, The Poss... Lees meer

The Exotic Prisoner in Russian Romanticism

Paul M Austin

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 9
• Besides new themes of alienation and desires for self-fulfillment, European Romanticism brought to Russian literature the congenial themes of captivit... Lees meer

The Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Russian Literary Imagination

Leonard J Stanton

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 3
• Between 1821 and 1891, the Optina Pustyn Monastery of Konzel'sk, in Russia's Kaluga Government, was the site of an unprecedented - and as yet unequale... Lees meer

The Poetics of Korolenko's Fiction

Radha Balasubramanian

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 12
• Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853-1921) reigned high in popularity in pre-revolutionary Russia as a writer of short fiction until his contempora... Lees meer

Russian Love Stories

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 31
• Russian Love Stories offers a broad range of narrative styles, philosophical agendas, and points of view from writers who insist on making love (be it... Lees meer

Poets on Poets

Olga Zaslavsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 34
• This book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic persona and oeuvre in... Lees meer

Contextualizing Transition

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 16
• The recent disintegration of the Soviet Empire has caused not only the redrawing of its geographical borders but has also destabilized its cultural bo... Lees meer

Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 30
• Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe is a collection of articles discussing authors whose homelands range from the former Soviet Union to th... Lees meer

On the Banks of the Yaryn; A Demonological Novel

Valentina Brougher

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 28
• On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondratiev was published in Berlin in 1930, but only appeared in Russia in 1993 as the country reclaimed some o... Lees meer

Biblical Subtexts and Religious Themes in Works of Anton Chekhov

Mark Stanley Swift

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 18
• Both atheists and Christians claim Chekhov as their own, a fact that affirms the ambiguity of his artistry. Chekhov separates the dogma of tradition f... Lees meer

Confronting Dostoevsky's «Demons»

James Goodwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 33
• Although criticized at one time for its highly tendentious spirit, Dostoevsky's Demons (1871-1872) has proven to be a novel of great polemical vitalit... Lees meer

Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai Gogol's «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka»

Christopher Putney

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 15
• In addition to examining the aesthetic representation of evil in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka , this book explores the traditions o... Lees meer

The Nihilist Imagination

Peter C Pozefsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 27
• Dmitrii Pisarev (1840-1868) was the leader of a cohort of Russian radicals known as the Nihilists and was Russia's most visible literary critic for mo... Lees meer

The Intimate Stranger

Julian W Connolly

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 26
• The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteen... Lees meer

«The Fantastic Journeys of Baron Brambeus»

Louis Pedrotti

• Paperback | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 5
• Louis Pedrotti has undertaken the first English translation of the most popular and influential work of Osip Senkovsky, The Fantastic Journeys of Baro... Lees meer

The Novellas of Valentin Rasputin

Teresa Polowy

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 1
• Valentin Rasputin is, by popular and critical acclaim, one of the most thought-provoking writers in the Soviet Union today. The Novellas of Valentin R... Lees meer

The Perverted Ideal in Dostoevsky's «The Devils»

Nancy Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 8
• The Devils (also translated as The Possessed ) is one of the four major novels of the great nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. This ... Lees meer

English Counter Russian

Munir Sendich

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 20
• English Counter Russian examines English/Russian literary translations of works by seven renowned authors and a critic - Pasternak, Chukovsky, Voinovi... Lees meer

Pasternak's Short Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard

Larissa Rudova

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 6
• Pasternak's Short Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard explores Boris Pasternak's (1890-1960) early fiction from 1911-1931 in relation to the development... Lees meer

Music in Russian Poetry

Paul Friedrich

• Paperback | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 10
• This groundbreaking work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from the eighteenth century through the modern period, in terms of the po... Lees meer

Their Fathers' Voice

Cynthia Simmons

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 4
• Aksyonov, Venedikt Erofeev, Limonov, and Sokolov, «children of the sixties and seventies», were among the first to test the limits of «glasnost» in th... Lees meer

Russia Imagined

Robert Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 13
• These interdisciplinary essays in Russian and Western cultural and intellectual history shed light on the migration of people, politics, art, and idea... Lees meer

Chekhov Then and Now

• Hardcover | Engels | Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature | nr. 7
• Since his death in 1904, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works have had an enormous resonance in different cultures and fields of artistic activity. The ess... Lees meer